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to it - I presume it must be so for otherwise an awful loss of life must frequently occur - Personally I had no idea electricity had reached such an advanced stage - Aeroplaning & submarine work are equally dangerous & entirely subversive of what men have – up to date – regarded as the normal mis operations in military & naval warfare -
Well we came up & got along & had drinks & that ended my visit to AE2 - I don't think they'd let anyone save the crew go out in her anywhere - Service orders I believe – so I shant get drowned that way -
Buz has it that Tahiti has been shelled by German cruisers - Tahiti is 3000 from us - Well – until these German cruisers are accounted for we shall stick here - What we marvel at is that Cairns or Townsville has not been stuck up – shelled & coal & food captured & the banks looted - It surely wd - be easy to capture these places -
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